Tennessee

Popular with employees: Birthdays mean a day off from work with pay.

First Horizon, No. 35 in the overall ranking, is No. 1 in the category for banks with more than $10 billion of assets.

Employee recognition/appreciation program: First National often provides breakfast or lunch for employees.

The holding company for Tennessee's FirstBank plans to hold an initial public offering, in order to make more than $65 million in distributions and debt repayments to its chairman.

Lending margins are once again contracting thanks to a confluence of factors, and bankers are doing everything from shifting cash into higher-risk securities to reconfiguring branches to pad profits.

First Horizon National in Memphis, Tenn., reports solid quarterly results on the strength of revenue growth.

A trio of banks will buy more than $1.4 billion in franchise loans from GE Capital.

Franklin Financial Network in Tennessee hit a roadblock in its plan to buy Civic Bank & Trust in Nashville, but that didn't stop Franklin from hiring away Civic's chief executive.

The $25 billion-asset subsidiary of First Horizon National said in a press release Wednesday that Louis Allen, executive vice president and manager of commercial banking for the bank's west Tennessee region, will be promoted to regional president June 30.

Simmons First National in Pine Bluff, Ark., has agreed to buy Citizens National Bancorp in Athens, Tenn.